On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:15:21 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
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"Don Foreman" wrote in message
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:05:17 -0700, Gunner Asch
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:13:10 -0500, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:23:21 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:



If you
please, what is the violent crime data for same period for Fridley,
MN?

2005 -- 446 violent crimes/100k people.

Wow! That surprises me. Perhaps I feel safer than I should. No
sarcasm here, I really am surprised at that number for Fridley.


Now the question remains...do you have 100k people living in Findley?

If you have 10k..its 44.6 crimes


Gunner

That's just a convenient way to normalize data so it can be compared
to other locales. Fridley has pop of about 25,868. The actual stats
are on the web page Ed cited, just like they were for Taft in your
case.

The surprise to me is that I've seen no mention of violent crimes in
Fridley in the Mnpls paper I read every day. North Mnpls,Brooklyn
Center and St. Paul yeah, but nothing about Friendly Fridley. A car
was broken into in the 6800 block of Hohum drive, some DVDs were
stolen. Etc.

If it interests you, it would be worth checking with the Fridley police to
see what's going on.

I will be doing exactly that. I don't have much use for cops as a
generality because I've found so many of them to be power-crazed
arrogant assholes -- but I have great respect for the Fridley PD.

I was surprised to learn not long ago that their squad rifles are not
..223 but .243. An excellent choice in my humble opinion. A Fridley
cop stopped by to investigate a minor complaint I'd made about
itinerant peddlers, stayed and BS'd with me for over an hour in my
garage/shop/sanctorum. He's a woodworker, that's what he wants to do
when he retires.

I've had other encounters with the Fridley cops. 911 call for a
suspicious stranger wandering thru back yards at dusk. I and my good
neighbors have rather deep back yards. They were there in less than
2 minutes. Their tactics were flat perfect to my somewhat experienced
eye. Quiet pincers, drive to collect (rather than kill), very
effective. They efficiently collected the trespasser and quietly
hauled him away.